# Globe Security Systems Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 28, 1988 · 518 Pa. 544

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9732289

## Case

- **Full name:** GLOBE SECURITY SYSTEMS CO. and National Union Fire Insurance Company, Appellants, v. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (Jorge GUERRERO, Deceased; Roberta Guerrero, Widow), Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 28, 1988
- **Citations:** 518 Pa. 544; 544 A.2d 953; 1988 Pa. LEXIS 196
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by McDERMOTT
- **Judges:** Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Stout
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a claimant was entitled to benefits where decedent worker’s suicide was caused by “a deranged mental condition” and therefore not intentional

## Opinion text

McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority’s interpretation permitting recovery under the facts of this case; and I am satisfied that the majority’s reasoning is sufficient without reference to other learned text.

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